Ratatouille and Cutie

At Trader Joe's they had fresh ratatouille for sale. I wasn't sure how to use it but luckily for me they had it sampled that day. They put it over some tricolors noodles and it was excellent. I did the same thing tonight and it was even better! Yum!

This morning after I got out of the shower, I found Mosey like this:

Pho

I love pho! Pho is Vietnamese noodle soup. I always get the vegetarian kind. The best place to get it around here is Adong restaurant. They have lots of vegetarian options.

I think Jason should like it to but he says it is "girl's food'. Oh well..

Due Again??

I can't believe it has already been 6 months since I went to the dentist! Actually, it has been more than six months but just barely. Today I went in to get my teeth cleaned and make an appointment for some fillings that I neglected last time I came in. I got a different dentist this time and he seemed to be in a hurry. When he was checking for stickiness in my molars, he missed and jabbed his tool into my gums. He told me that if he hurt me while he was cleaning my teeth, just raise my hand to let him know. I had that hand up almost every tooth! It was very disconcerting to see the suction tube sucking up bright red blood out of my mouth. I made an appointment to get my cavities filled but made sure I specified that I wanted the other dentist. My gums are already swelling up.....

Lily Tree

I was walking to get a sandwich at Subway today when I passed this beautiful tree! I had never seen a tree like this before... It looks like a lily tree! Anyone know what it is?

Monthly Meeting

Tonight I took my two new lia sophia advisors with me to our monthly lia sophia meeting. The sky was beautiful when we arrived but unfortunately, this is the best picture I could get. It doesn't really do it justice.

California Bounty

One thing I will miss about California when we leave is how many things you can find growing all around you. Not that it is green where we are, but there are lots of hot weather fruit trees around. Here is a bowl of fruit that were handpicked by me or a friend near my house.

New Sunglasses

I lost my favorite pair of sunglasses so I had to resume wearing a pair that my great aunt gave me. They were stylish, don't get me wrong, but didn't flatter my face as much as my other ones. Then Mosey sat on those and broke them so I have been without sunglasses for a few months now. I hadn't realized how much I depended on them! I really missed them! So today, I went and bought somemore! Do you like them?

Ciao Antoinetta!

Today I was sitting at school when in walked my Italian teacher from Italy! I hadn't seen her since I left almost 6 years ago (has it really been that long?). She is interested in getting a group from Italy to come take ESL classes in my department. Isn't that exciting? Here we are in my office.

It turns out that I worked with several other people who studied at the same school as me but different years. Here is a picture of Odette Ferrera, the Director of Adventist Colleges Abroad; Dr. Norma Alban, my Spanish teacher; me, the Director of English as a Second Language here; Raquel, who studied at Villa Aurora and is now that school registrar; Jankel, who studied at Villa Aurora and is one our school bigwigs; and Antoinetta, Director of Italian as a Second Language at Villa Aurora in Florence Italy.


What a small world huh?

Junk Food

It has been a pretty stressful semester. On top of which, my schedule doesn't allow me to go home for lunch very often. I haven't got the motivation to pack my own lunch so I usually end up eating this:


We just got a vending machine at school and this is what my lunch has looked like for the last 3 days.... Ugh.

Oh Great.....

Oh goody! Just what I wanted to do on my lunch break!

Ernie Maxwell Trail

Today Jason and I were itching to get outside. Jason found us a nice trail to hike and off we went! There was still snow on a lot of the trail but it was easy hiking because Mosey pulled us the entire way. Here is Jason resting.


I emphasize Jason because Mosey never rested. Here I am with Mosey at the end of the trail before we started back.


It was a wonderful day!

Pathetic Puppies

We went to the pound today against our better judgement... We just happened to be driving past. We were able to resist taking a puppy home with us. But it was close. Could you have resisted?

Naughty Jason!

Today my mom, Jason and I went to the Old Spaghetti Factory. Jason was bored so he spent most of the time on his iPhone.


Here we are right after he received a text from me telling him to get off his phone.


As you can see, after my little warning, he was as enthusiastic as me to be there!

Can't Get Enough..

I really can't stop taking pictures of Mosey. Here is another one.

Canon Mark II 5D

We got our new camera yesterday! Take a look at our first family portrait session.




Note that the first 2 pictures are taken in a dark room without a flash. It takes video too! Here is the first video we shot.